On 2012-Jul-07, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, gdweber at iue.edu wrote:
>> >Sifflet and sifflet-lib 2.0.0.0, now available on Hackage!
> >
> >This version introduces a type checker and partial support
> >for higher order functions in Sifflet, the visual, functional
> >programming language and support system for students learning
> >about recursion.
>> You have implemented your own type-checker, right?
It is my code implementing the type checker from Simon Peyton-Jones's
book "The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages" (1987).
> I plan to add a
> type-checker to our live-sequencer project. [1] So far I have
> thought about using the Helium type checker but I have not done it
> so far. If you want to make your type-checker useful for other
> projects, you may put it into a separate package without the hard to
> install dependencies on cairo and glib.
>
I am very interested in receiving suggestions for modularizing
my packages, and I thank you for this one.
I should point out that the Sifflet type checker (unlike Helium's)
is not a type checker for Haskell, or even a reduced version of Haskell,
but for a very small language consisting of these expressions
(from Language.Sifflet.Expr):
data Expr = EUndefined
| ESymbol Symbol
| EBool Bool
| EChar Char
| ENumber Number
| EString String
| EIf Expr Expr Expr -- ^ if test branch1 branch2
| EList [Expr]
| ELambda Symbol Expr
| EApp Expr Expr -- ^ apply function to argument
| ECall Symbol [Expr] -- ^ function name, arglist
| EOp Operator Expr Expr -- ^ binary operator application
| EGroup Expr -- ^ grouping parentheses
deriving (Eq, Show)
(there are some redundant variants there, because I
designed Expr before thinking about type checking and then
augmented it to add the type checker)
and these types
data Type = TypeVar TypeVarName -- named type variable
| TypeCons TypeConsName [Type] -- constructed type
deriving (Eq)
Do you still think my type checker would be useful to you,
or to Haskellers generally?
> [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXywCHR9WwE
Ah, I enjoyed the performance!
Greg
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